A state court has schooled the New Jersey Department of Education on the law and requiring students to pass the PARCC test for graduation. It’s the kind of outcome protesting parents have wanted for months.
“I think it’s a very good ruling. It’s a very thoughtful ruling. It’s appropriate,” said Julia Sass Rubin, member of Save Our Schools NJ and associate professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.
View StoryMap Bloustein students collaborated with the Hudson County Division of Planning to develop recommendations for a public engagement guide and create a community survey for the county's 2050 Comprehensive Plan. This plan will lay the foundation for smart,...
Rutgers Democracy Lab (RDL) is excited to announce the launch of its inaugural Democracy Summer Research Fellowship. The fellowship funds 25 projects led by doctoral students from Rutgers–New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark and 15 academic disciplines selected from a...
Personal exposures to heat and PM2.5 in urban environments Abstract Current methods for assessing exposure to extreme heat and air pollution depend mostly on readings from regulatory monitoring stations. We hypothesize that this does not accurately represent the...
On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, the NJDOT Bicycle and Pedestrian Resource Center hosted the eighth New Jersey Complete Streets Summit. This year’s event, centered on the theme “Every Journey Safer,” was a resounding success, bringing together more than 250 planners,...
Op-ed by Tram Hoang, a senior associate at PolicyLink, a national research and action institute and Mark Paul, associate professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Massachusetts is losing its working families. Not just to...